"Tom Cervo" wrote in message
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"There's no question that Iraq was a threat to the people of the United
States."

- White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan, 8/26/03



"We ended the threat from Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction."

- President Bush, 7/17/03



Iraq was "the most dangerous threat of our time."

- White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 7/17/03



"Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to the United States because we
removed
him, but he was a threat...He was a threat. He's not a threat now."

- President Bush, 7/2/03



"Absolutely."

- White House spokesman Ari Fleischer answering whether Iraq was an
"imminent
threat," 5/7/03



"We gave our word that the threat from Iraq would be ended."

- President Bush 4/24/03



"The threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction will be removed."

- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 3/25/03



"It is only a matter of time before the Iraqi regime is destroyed and its
threat to the region and the world is ended."

- Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke, 3/22/03



"The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live
at
the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of
mass
murder."

- President Bush, 3/19/03



"The dictator of Iraq and his weapons of mass destruction are a threat to
the
security of free nations."

- President Bush, 3/16/03



"This is about imminent threat."

- White House spokesman Scott McClellan, 2/10/03



Iraq is "a serious threat to our country, to our friends and to our
allies."

- Vice President Dick Cheney, 1/31/03



Iraq poses "terrible threats to the civilized world."

- Vice President Dick Cheney, 1/30/03



Iraq "threatens the United States of America."

- Vice President Cheney, 1/30/03



"Iraq poses a serious and mounting threat to our country. His regime has
the
design for a nuclear weapon, was working on several different methods of
enriching uranium, and recently was discovered seeking significant
quantities
of uranium from Africa."

- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 1/29/03



"Saddam Hussein possesses chemical and biological weapons. Iraq poses a
threat
to the security of our people and to the stability of the world that is
distinct from any other. It's a danger to its neighbors, to the United
States,
to the Middle East and to the international peace and stability. It's a
danger
we cannot ignore. Iraq and North Korea are both repressive dictatorships
to be
sure and both pose threats. But Iraq is unique. In both word and deed,
Iraq has
demonstrated that it is seeking the means to strike the United States and
our
friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction."

- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 1/20/03



"The Iraqi regime is a threat to any American. They not only have weapons
of
mass destruction, they used weapons of mass destruction...That's why I say
Iraq
is a threat, a real threat."

- President Bush, 1/3/03



"The world is also uniting to answer the unique and urgent threat posed by
Iraq
whose dictator has already used weapons of mass destruction to kill
thousands."

- President Bush, 11/23/02



"I would look you in the eye and I would say, go back before September 11
and
ask yourself this question: Was the attack that took place on September 11
an
imminent threat the month before or two months before or three months
before or
six months before? When did the attack on September 11 become an imminent
threat? Now, transport yourself forward a year, two years or a week or a
month...So the question is, when is it such an immediate threat that you
must
do something?"

- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 11/14/02



"Saddam Hussein is a threat to America."

- President Bush, 11/3/02



"I see a significant threat to the security of the United States in Iraq."

- President Bush, 11/1/02





"There is real threat, in my judgment, a real and dangerous threat to
American
in Iraq in the form of Saddam Hussein."

- President Bush, 10/28/02



"The Iraqi regime is a serious and growing threat to peace."

- President Bush, 10/16/02



"There are many dangers in the world, the threat from Iraq stands alone
because
it gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place. Iraq could
decide
on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist
group or individual terrorists."

- President Bush, 10/7/02



"The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency."

- President Bush, 10/2/02



"There's a grave threat in Iraq. There just is."

- President Bush, 10/2/02



"This man poses a much graver threat than anybody could have possibly
imagined."

- President Bush, 9/26/02



"No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the
security of
our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam
Hussein in
Iraq."

- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 9/19/02



"Some have argued that the nuclear threat from Iraq is not imminent - that
Saddam is at least 5-7 years away from having nuclear weapons. I would not
be
so certain. And we should be just as concerned about the immediate threat
from
biological weapons. Iraq has these weapons."

- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 9/18/02



"Iraq is busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and
biological agents, and they continue to pursue an aggressive nuclear
weapons
program. These are offensive weapons for the purpose of inflicting death
on a
massive scale, developed so that Saddam Hussein can hold the threat over
the
head of any one he chooses. What we must not do in the face of this mortal
threat is to give in to wishful thinking or to willful blindness."

- Vice President Dick Cheney, 8/29/02


One wonders why the war is an issue, since there seems to be near universal
agreement among US politicos.